Job summary An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably experienced Children's Nurse with a minimum of 2 years post registration community and complex needs experience to join an established Children's Community Nursing Team in Solihull. The successful candidate will have relevant community and complex needs experience, excellent communication skills, and be committed to delivering high quality care to children in their home, school, special school and local community environments. Good team working and interpersonal skills are essential as is an ability to manage your own time, manage your own caseload and to support junior colleagues including supervision, appraisal and revalidation. This role requires a candidate who is confident and enthusiastic about supporting children with complex health and palliative needs to maximise their potential and who can confidently and enthusiastically engage with and support parents. You will also need to be confident in relation to staff support and development. It will include contribution to Children's Continuing Care Assessments, teaching and competency training to parents, carers and other staff members across the multi-disciplinary team and staff support and management. Applicants must hold a full current UK driving licence and have regular access to their own car. Main duties of the job This role includes contribution to Children's Continuing Care Assessments, Safeguarding meetings, teaching, competency training, staff support and management. It includes clinical interventions and skill-based competencies including tracheostomy, enteral feeding management, epilepsy management. You will participate in palliative, end of life care including contribution to a 24 hour on call rota. Experience with children with palliative care needs including Advanced Care Planning is essential as is knowledge of end-of-life care processes; experience in delivering end of life care support is desirable and support will be provided. Your role as care co-ordinator will involve triage and appropriate allocation of referrals and clinical caseload supervision with junior members of the team. About us We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this. Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to: Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives. UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work. University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital. Date posted 26 February 2025 Pay scheme Agenda for change Band Band 6 Salary £37,338 to £44,962 a year Contract Permanent Working pattern Part-time, Flexible working Reference number 304-9001343 Job locations Solihull Community Nursing Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road Solihull West Midlands B90 4BN Job description Job responsibilities Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description Job description Job responsibilities Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description Person Specification Qualifications Essential Registered Nurse Learning Disability or Equivalent to degree level. Teaching and Assessing Qualification eg. SLAIP. Evidence of Continuing Professional Development. 2 years experience of working in the Community. Desirable Leadership course. Experience Essential 3 years Post Registration experience. Experience of working within a Multidisciplinary team. Experience of working with in the community setting. Experience and evidence of implementing change. Has an understanding of safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults. Knowledge of audit and research management/ leadership experience. Teaching/presentation experience. Experience of supervising others or mentoring. Awareness of the function and skills needed of Lead Professional role. Able to demonstrate innovation with in current areas of practice. Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures including safe-guarding and disability. Knowledge of recognized health related issues in children and young people with learning disabilities. Able to utilize IT skills to document events on a day to day basis. To use these skills to make learning books/PECs for children and young people. Use Trust IT system. Able to use Word Publishing/Excel or equivalent. Desirable Use Trust IT system. Additional Criteria Essential Able to translate skills e.g. listening and being a good communicator into a variety of settings/services and enthuse others - can communicate complex information where there are barriers to learning and understanding. Able to demonstrate ability to promote the individuality and well being of clients in a holistic way. Able to work on own initiative and be self directed. To work unsupervised for short periods of work and make decisions in the planning ,delivery and evaluation of care. To supervise staff on a day to day basis: to include 1:1 and appraisal monitoring of non-qualified staff. Need to be flexible and adaptable. Ability to develop effective working relationships with families. Ability to manage own time effectively. Ability to work within a team and autonomously. Able to motivate and challenge traditional thinking. To remain calm under pressure, resourceful, approachable, non judgmental reliable and honest. Flexible attitude. Innovative. Assertive. Self aware. Enthusiastic. Willingness to motivate change. Needs to have a full UK driving licence and have a car available at all times. Willing to undertake disclosure and Barring service at Enhanced level. Desirable Evidence of ability to train carer's/children and young people /staff. Person Specification Qualifications Essential Registered Nurse Learning Disability or Equivalent to degree level. Teaching and Assessing Qualification eg. SLAIP. Evidence of Continuing Professional Development. 2 years experience of working in the Community. Desirable Leadership course. Experience Essential 3 years Post Registration experience. Experience of working within a Multidisciplinary team. Experience of working with in the community setting. Experience and evidence of implementing change. Has an understanding of safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults. Knowledge of audit and research management/ leadership experience. Teaching/presentation experience. Experience of supervising others or mentoring. Awareness of the function and skills needed of Lead Professional role. Able to demonstrate innovation with in current areas of practice. Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures including safe-guarding and disability. Knowledge of recognized health related issues in children and young people with learning disabilities. Able to utilize IT skills to document events on a day to day basis. To use these skills to make learning books/PECs for children and young people. Use Trust IT system. Able to use Word Publishing/Excel or equivalent. Desirable Use Trust IT system. Additional Criteria Essential Able to translate skills e.g. listening and being a good communicator into a variety of settings/services and enthuse others - can communicate complex information where there are barriers to learning and understanding. Able to demonstrate ability to promote the individuality and well being of clients in a holistic way. Able to work on own initiative and be self directed. To work unsupervised for short periods of work and make decisions in the planning ,delivery and evaluation of care. To supervise staff on a day to day basis: to include 1:1 and appraisal monitoring of non-qualified staff. Need to be flexible and adaptable. Ability to develop effective working relationships with families. Ability to manage own time effectively. Ability to work within a team and autonomously. Able to motivate and challenge traditional thinking. To remain calm under pressure, resourceful, approachable, non judgmental reliable and honest. Flexible attitude. Innovative. Assertive. Self aware. Enthusiastic. Willingness to motivate change. Needs to have a full UK driving licence and have a car available at all times. Willing to undertake disclosure and Barring service at Enhanced level. Desirable Evidence of ability to train carer's/children and young people /staff. Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window). Employer details Employer name University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Address Solihull Community Nursing Friars Gate, 1011 Stratford Road Solihull West Midlands B90 4BN Employer's website https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm (Opens in a new tab)